<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Pat, Tom and All,<br></span></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Yes it did appear that the firmly intrenched Ampex customers had a place (and business plan justification) for an HS- 200. </div><div><br></div><div>Below is day # 1 when the HS-200 arrived at WFAA-TV:</div><div><br></div><div><img height="480" width="633" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="3be655c4-b490-441c-b2c2-1a84c605a8e8" src="cid:972A9AA4-E49A-4D88-A1F0-EF144CB27E3B@dynguide.com"></div>
<div><br></div><div>I believe there were at least three HS-200's in Dallas/Ft. Worth in about 1972. The total number of HS-100 "towers" between the three network affiliates there and MCI Productions was at least four, perhaps more.</div><div><br></div><div>NBC Burbank had two HS-200 systems in place as late as 1982 in videotape alone. I am not sure how many HS-100's field had (at least one). I would imagine that TV City had a few. </div><div><br></div><div>Editel, TAV, Metromedia, KTLA, VTE, Loyola, Compact and others had HS-100/200 systems in town (Burbank/LA) in the 70's.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span"><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>David Crosthwait</div><div>DC Video</div></div></div></div></span></span></div></div></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a><br><a href="http://dcvideo.com/">www.dcvideo.com</a></font></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Follow DC Video on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo">https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo</a></font></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Nov 10, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Pat McGowan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><style type="text/css">p { margin: 0; }</style><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">Chris,<br><br>I doubt the HS-200 was a giveaway, but rather a high dollar option added to the HS-100. Perhaps some of the Ampex vets here could provide insight.<br>WGN had one in the West Tape room during my first summer VR tour. Don't remember if it had it's own disc stack or shared. West tape was used for WGN Productions which did a lot of work for outside clients using Studio 3. East tape, where I was assigned, was the on-air room with 6 VR-2000's. <br>Here's a pic from the internet of KRLD Dallas. There's a 2K, an AVR-1, an HS-100 stack and the HS-200 control desk. Also note the big floor ashtray right next to the VTR. Used to be standard equipment in every tape room I worked. Hard to imagine now.<br><br>Pat<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra">Editel, Chicago had an HS-200 in Edit 1.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">When I arrived there in 1977, Edit 1 was equipped with a CDL PEC-120 controlling one AVR-1, two VR-1200Cs and an HS-200. The HS-200 was powered up on-demand.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As 1" C-format began to be introduced, and freeze frames were possible with the Vital Squeezoom and Ampex ADO, the maintenance costs of the platters and heads grew to more than the income the HS-200 produced.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Already mentioned, WGN had an HS-200. I remember Editel's HS-200 crashing during an edit session, so my client and I hopped in a cab to Bradley Place where my friend Rich Leigh programmed a slo-mo to a freeze-frame and recorded it back to quad for us.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>Tom Evans<br>Park Ridge, IL<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quadlist-request@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank">quadlist-request@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 20:08:52 -0500<br>From: <a href="mailto:chill315@aol.com">chill315@aol.com</a><br>To: Quad List <<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br>Subject: [QuadList] HS-200<br><br><br>We have had the discussion about the slow motion disc. Several times the HS-200 was mentioned. I remember the demo reel that was made. I know that a few places had them. Usually when a large Ampex package was in a place. One place wasTPC in Pittsburgh. I visited there to look at the RA-4000 editor that we purchased. They had AVR1s and the HS-100 that was also used in the remote truck.<br><br>Who else had them?<br><br>So was the HS-200 a give away to close the deal at some places? Or did places buy it as a needed item?<br><br>Chris Hill<br><br></blockquote></div></div></div><br></body></html>